Alagwa language

E930676

The Alagwa language is a South Cushitic language spoken by the Alagwa people of north-central Tanzania.

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Label Occurrences
Alagwa language canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
South Cushitic language
language
continent Africa
country Tanzania
ethnicGroup Alagwa people NERFINISHED
glottologName Alagwa NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Alaagwa’isa
Alagwaisa NERFINISHED
Alawa
Waasi
hasConsonantInventoryType rich consonant inventory (relative)
hasDomainOfUse home and community communication
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable (approximate)
hasGlottocode alag1248
hasMorphologyType agglutinative (tendency)
hasOralTradition strong
hasPhylum Afroasiatic
hasSpeakerCommunity Alagwa people NERFINISHED
hasStandardizationStatus limited standardization
hasTypology SOV word order (tendency)
hasVowelInventoryType five-vowel system (approximate)
isMinorityLanguageIn Tanzania NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 wbj
languageBranch Cushitic
languageFamily Afroasiatic NERFINISHED
languageSubbranch South Cushitic NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Rift Valley area of Tanzania
neighboringLanguage Burunge language NERFINISHED
Iraqw language
Sandawe language NERFINISHED
partOfLanguageFamily Afroasiatic languages NERFINISHED
Cushitic languages NERFINISHED
primaryCountry Tanzania NERFINISHED
region Dodoma Region NERFINISHED
Manyara Region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Alagwa people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Tanzania NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion north-central Tanzania
subcontinent East Africa NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf South Cushitic languages
usedAlongsideLanguage Iraqw language NERFINISHED
Swahili NERFINISHED
usedByReligion local traditional religions
usedIn Alagwa communities
usedInEducationLevel informal community education (limited)
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Input
Subject: Alagwa language
Description of subject: The Alagwa language is a South Cushitic language spoken by the Alagwa people of north-central Tanzania.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iraqw closelyRelatedTo Alagwa language